Exercising-machine or gaming apparatus.



D. H. KLEHISOHMIDT.

BXEROISING MACHINE 0R GAMING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION 11.21) JAN.17, 1914.

1,105,329. Patented July 28, 1914.

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D. H. KLEINSCHMIDT.

EXERGISING MACHINE 0R GAMING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1914.

1,105,329, Patented July 28,1914,

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DANIEL nERMAN KLEINSCHMIDT, or BUFFALO, new YORK. I

EXEROISING-MAOHINE on GAMING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jul 28, 1914.

Application filed January 17,1914. Serial No. 812,711.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, D NIEL HERMAN KLEINSOHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York,have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in EX- ercising-Machines or Gaming Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in exercising machines or gaming apparatus designed for automatically registering the force of a blow applied with a baseball bat, or other similar object.

The primary object of my invention is to introduce into a gaming apparatus the two essential elements of a baseball game; namely, a bat, and a ball adapted to be given a forcible blow with the bat; both being associated with a power registeringor indicating mechanism adapted to indicate what the force of the blow imparted to the ball with the bat would result in at the game of baseball. 7 I

Another object of my invention is to construct an apparatus of this type in which simplicity durabilityand reliability are the essential features, the registering or indicating mechanism of the apparatus being capable of adjustment to differently indicate the force of the blows directed againstthe ball.

1 A further object is to improve on gaming apparatus in which the force of a blow directed against a movable portion of the apparatus is registered.

With these objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the subjoined claims. 1 A l In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2

is a plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is an end vlew. F 1g. 4 1s a central vertical sectlon taken on line H, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an en-- larged vertical section taken on line 55, Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is an enlarged vertical section taken on line 66, Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a section taken on line 77, Fig. 6. Referring now tothe drawings in detail, like numerals of reference refer to similar parts in the several views.

The reference numeral frame work of the apparatus, which may be 1O designates the variously constructed, but in preferred :form comprises a base 11 consisting-pf longitudi nal members 12 and cross members 13 tying said longitudinal memberstogether. Rising 14 which support; a table-likestructure 15 on which the registering or indicating mechanism and tlieregulating mechanism are located. 1

16are diagonal'braces connecting thebase 11 and table 15 together at the rear of the frame. The table l5. has at its front edge a verticaloportion 17 to which is secured a from'this base are four postsor standards I disk18 divided 'on its face into a series of 1 spaces'pll). In these spacesis painted-gorotherw se marked, terms used in a baseball game, such as indicate the force of a blow directed against the baseballwhen pitched, and the distance theball safely travels when hie? Passing through the vertical portiont 17 andtheidisk' 18 is a spindle 20 which is journaled 'insaid vertical portion and disk 15. To the front end of saidxspindle isse cured lan indicating finger 22 and between said vertical portion and thebearing 21 a pinion 23" is keyed or otherwise secured to ner to atshaft 25,suitably journaled inbearand also in abearing 21 secured to the table ings 26and having near its rear end a cable sheave 27 fastened thereon."

'- 28 represents acable whichissecured at one end to a clevis 29 fastened tojthe base 12 of the frame work; or it may be otherwise suitably. secured to said base. From said clevis the cable is directed upwardly in.

a vertical plane and passes around the cable sheave 27 and thencelaterally to a regulating device 30,to a part of which itis secured. Said regulating device'is attachedto-the table 15 and comprises a cylinder 31 having) securing flanges 82 provided with slots 33. Through said slots are passed bolts 34 that take into the table 15. The

cylinder is provided with removable heads 35 which arefpreferably threaded thereon,

one of said heads having an internal square 1 depression 36.iniwhich fits the square head of a bolt 37 that is secured to a bracket 38 fastened 1 to the table 15. The bolt has threadedthereon a nut 39 by means of which thecylinder 31 may be moved lengthwise on of the vertical portion l7 of the table. 'force of the blow directed against the'ball the table. Within the cylinder is a coil spring 40 bearing at one end against a plate or washer 41 secured to a rod 42 passing centrally through said coil spring and extending out through one of the heads 35,

said rod having the cable 28 secured thereto. By loosening the bolts 34, the cylinder 32 will be moved toward the bracket 38, thereby compressing the coil spring 42 within the cylinder and increasing the resistance placed against the force of the blow directed against a spherical element 43 secured to the vertically-disposed portion of the cable 28, said element representing a baseball. After adjustment of the cylinder, the bolts 34 may be tightened to secure the same inposition. vIf it is desired to diminish the tension of the coil spring 42, the nut 39 on the bolt 37 may be loosened and the cylinder moved on the. table in an opposite direction so as to permit'the spring to expand, thus decreasing the tension placed on the cable.

The indicating finger 22 is normally positioned between the two lowermost spaces 19 on the disk, such point representing zero. In registering the force of the blow directed against the ball 43, the indicating finger is caused to travel to, thevv left in-Fig. 1, and the spaces are therefore successively marked in the same .direction, the firstspace being designated Foul; the second, Bunt the'third, Base hit; the fourth, Two-base hit; the fifth,

Three-base hit, and the sixth, Home run. If, in striking the ball 48' with the bat, a weak blow is directed against said ball, the

- indicating finger would'be moved to the left 7 a distance to possibly not exceed a movement confined within the space designated Foul, and this travel or movement of the indicating finger is increased to bring the same into the other spaces of the series ac cordingly, as the power of the blow directed against the ball is increased. When the indicating finger 22 passes into the Home run space, it engages a trip 44 which projects from the disk 18, and this trip forms part of actuating mechanism 45 adapted to ring an alarm 46 provided on. the rear siilde tightening upon the nut' 39, after vided directly above the ball, otherwise it would: be possible to direct the bat against the ball in a somewhat downwardly inclined having opposite ends threaded, as at 49, the

core having anaxial bore 50 provided with an enlargement 51 between its ends. This two part core is placed over the cable, and a knot 52 is formed on the cable, or some other enlargement provided in lieu of the other suitable material capable of within the enlarged portion of the bore 50. Nuts 53 of any suitable material are threaded ontothe threaded end portions of the core, and between these nuts are placed a series of disks 54, the disks being gradually enlarged from the nuts 53 toward the horizontal center of the ball, as clearly shown in Fig. 6. These disks are preferably made of rawhide, but may be constructed of any other suitable material capable of withstanding the wear and force of the blows directed thereagainst. \Vhen the ball is thus applied to the cable, it may be fastened in place by pouring molten lead or other metal into the bore of the core, as clearly shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is,

1. An apparatus of the kind described, comprising a support, a spring carried by said support, an indicating device includin a cable sheave, a cable passing around sai sheave having one end secured to said spring and its other end secured to said support, and a spherical element secured to said cable.

2. An apparatus of the kind described, comprising a support, an indicating device on said support, a cylinder adjustable on said support, a coil spring within said cylin- 11 der, a rod passing through said coil spring and extending from one end of said cylinder, said spring bearing at one end against said end of said cylinder and being confined against expansive movement by said rod, a cable passing around said sheave and having one end secured to said rod and its other end fixedly attached to said support, and a ballv secured to said cable.

3. An apparatus of the kind described, comprising a support having a table, a cylinder lengthwise adjustable on said table, a coil spring within said cylinder, a rod passing through said spring and having a washer at one end bearing against one end of said spring, said spring bearing at its other end against one head of said cylinder and said rod extending through said head, a cable operatively connected with the indicating device and having oneend secured to said rod 13 and its other end secured to a fixed oint beneath said table, and a ball secure to said cable.

4. An apparatus of the kind described, comprising a support having a table, a bracket secured to said table, acylinder adjustablysecured to said table in a manner to be movable toward and from said bracket, a bolt extending from one end of said cylinder passing through said bracket, a nut applied to said bolt and bearing against said bracket, a coil spring within said cylinder, a rod passing through said coil spring serving to retain the same in a compressed state, said rod extending through the opposite end of said cylinder, an indicating device supported by said table, a cable operatively connected with said indicating device and having one end secured to said rod and its other end secured to a fixed point beneath said table, and a ball secured to said table.

5. An apparatus of the kind described, comprising a support having a base, up-

rights rising from said base and a table se-' cured to the upper ends of said uprights, a cable sheave mounted on said table, a cable passing over said sheave and extending downwardly for connection at one end with said base said cable being directed laterally from said sheave for yielding connection at its other end to said table, a ball secured to the downwardly extending portion of said cable and adapted to receive a blow from a baseball bat, a disk applied to the side of said table and divided into a series of'spaces, said spaces bearing terms of the game of baseball indicating the force of a blow directed against the ball on said cable, an indicating finger movable over said series of spaces, and operative connection between said indicating finger and said cable sheave. 6. An apparatus of the kind described, comprising a support having a base, uprights rising from said base and a table supported by said uprights and provided at its front edge with a vertical portion, a disk secured to said vertical portion and divided intoa circular series of spaces, a shaft passing axially through said disk, a pinion on said shaft, an indicating finger on said shaft adapted to move over said series of spaces, a second shaft, a gear wheel on said second shaft in mesh with said pinion, a cable sheave also on said second shaft, a. cable passing over said sheave and having one end yieldingly attached to said support and its other end fixedly attached, and a spherical element secured to said cable.

7. An apparatus of the kind described,

comprising a support, an indicating device on said support, a cable having a portion vertically directed and having one end secured to a fixed point of said support and its other end yieldingly secured to saidsupport, operative connection between said cable and said indicating device, a ball secured to the vertical portion of saidcable, and a guard secured to said support directly above said ball.

In testimony whereof I afiix' my signature in presence of two witnesses.

D. HERMAN KLEINSCHMIDT.

Witnesses EMIL NEUHART, EDA M. Scnvvnrenn.

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